Sadly I had a lot of sound issues including my wife talking over much of the content so had to replaced the actual sound track across a lot of the whole full length video.
Please include a pause before your ID the bird. For anyone trying to use such a video to learn to ID birds themselves or to teach a kid to ID birds, the video is useless if the answer is presented immediately!
Thanks for the comment, I'll bare that in mind going forward so to confirm you'd like to see a bit of footage of the bird and then a few seconds later the name pop up? Yes?
Interesting video Shaun. Have walked Thursley a few times, but only the fringes of Hankley. I presume all ok to walk even when the squaddies are leaping arounding in the bushes?? 🔫
You deserve a medal for wading through that lot. I'm in trainers from March. Hate mud and this year has been awful. Luckily I can see most of these species at Crossness and stay dry.
Hi Shaun, was there any further views/assessment of this bird? Just encountered a very similar individual in Milton Keynes this week, which I think is actually a Willow Warbler mimicking Chiffchaff vocals, though I do wonder if it has got something a little more Iberian about it.
Cheers mate. I had to do something re audio cos my voice on older videos kept dropping in and out this one seems a much more streamlined setup. No cables and you don't look like an idiot with a huge mic onto of your camera.
Well done Shaun, great video, always look forward to it. Need to collect my Son from Working end of this week , quite tempted to do a few hours at Thursley. By the way the mic sounded really good. Thanks for sharing. ❤🐦
Took me back a bit. Lovely to see the common recovering so well. Dartfords are like hens teeth down here but every combe on the moor is full of Willow Warbler at the moment. We did a survey on top Saturday and they were the second most common species with only Mipits in greater numbers. Loving that mic. There was just a tiny bit of wind noise here and there but actually it was perfect, just enough to create a bit of atmosphere without being intrusive at all. Tonally it was very nice.
Yeah I thought the mic was brill too. I also never had any 'white noise' in the back ground which you can hear on the Rode when i switch from the DJI to Rode at the Willow Warb recording near the end of the video. Only thing now is you can hear how unfit I am when going up hill with my heavy breathing. Lol
Would be interesting to hear you stand in some wind, record the sound on the iPhone, then plug on the Rode, then the DJI 2 all in one shot to really notice the difference
So the story behind those is... I was down on all fours pulling Himalayan Balsam when this started singing close to me. I just did a slow up periscope and enjoyed the show. hahaha Great new video btw busy watching it now. 👍
That's a very beautiful location and time of day. You keep the camera so still and the sound is so clear (I'm always battling with wind or traffic noise!). Great video
Thank you it's my new DJI Action cam it's brilliant. Sound will is from my Rode Videommicro with wind shield. Sound will get even better soon as I'll be getting the new DJI mic 2 a bluetooth lapel mic. Thanks for watching.
Great video thanks for sharing. I'm planning to visit Melbourne next January. I was also able to visit Standfontein when I lived in CapeTown about 20 years ago!
At the time of making that nothing, straight in as I was waiting for an cable to arrive. But now I've got a Smallrig protective case that's got a hot shoe for mounting my Rode VideoMicro Mic plus a TRS to usb C cable. Mic has dead cat on it so hopefully going forward now sound will be much better...wind noise wise.
Hi, do you know of a bird with a thick red Stripe on the underside of its wings going width ways not length ways., quite a big bird that I saw at krugar next to crocodile river. I've been trying to I. D. it for several years, any idea? Kind regards Jilly
@@shaunferguson8782 It was by no means a small bird and I believe it was a brown colour, I actually saw it twice but it flew over my head into a large bushy tree, so I didn't get a good look at it as it was only for a few seconds but the red stripe really stood out. Im quite sure it wasn't a raptor. I joined my brother in his time share several years but only saw it on my last visit. I've searched the Internet and books but wasnt able to find it sadly, lots with red stripes but none on underside of wings. Someone had seen it in a book *birds of southern Africa" but couldn't remember its name, Thank you for the reply. Kind regards ... Jilly
@@stormcabbirds Blimey you are getting around great stuff looking forward to the video. BTW I would say The Gambia is wilder than SA so if you can do that SA will be a breeze.
4 years and still waiting to see this. Over the years I’ve seen a few piles of feathers in our garden and wondered what happened. When I became a birder, and learned what that was 😂